*Cllr Rita McInerney outside the injury unit at Ennis Hospital. Photograph: Eugene McCafferty. A HOST of suitable sites have been put forward by Clare County Council to the HSE as potential locations for a new hospital in the county.
GALWAY CITY COUNCIL took the ‘Festival of the Year’ award at the 2025 Chambers Ireland Excellence in Local Government Awards beating off competition from neighbours Clare.
*Ciaran Downes. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill SEVEN members of the 2025 Clare senior football panel have opted out of representing the county next season.
DERMOT HAYES has been honoured for his tireless work over thirty five years as a leading disability activist in Clare.
*John O’Malley. Photograph: Joe Buckley AVENUE UTD’s John O’Malley has been returned unopposed as the Chairman of the Clare Schoolboys/Schoolgirls Soccer League (CSSL) with seven new additions to the top table.
ENNIS’ Christmas festivities have commenced with the turning of the lights kicking off the programme of events.
*Photograph: Ennis MD FUTURE plans for O’Connell Street in Ennis and its potential pedestrianisation is the focus of a new survey launched by Clare County Council.
PORTUMNA’S long-running charity Christmas Day swim is at risk of not proceeding this festive season.
*A full Harvey’s Quay car park in Ennis on Tuesday morning after 9am. Photograph: Páraic McMahon. ENNIS is short an estimated 240 spaces according to one councillor who said such a shortcoming is the equivalent of “€20m per annum lost for the local retail sector”.
Una Martin, Cllr David Griffin (FF) and Aidín O’Hanlon in Newmarket-on-Fergus. CONFIRMATION from the HSE that Newmarket-on-Fergus will be left without a GP has come as “a bolt from the blue” for the local community.